- Paperback: 392 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; New edition edition (Nov 7 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1405129298
- ISBN-13: 978-1405129299
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 2.2 x 24.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 612 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #306,356 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Barbara Lewalski is the doyenne of the community of Milton scholars, but she also remains committed to the enterprise of teaching. In this exemplary edition of Paradise Lost both qualities are in evidence: the text is scrupulous and the scholarship rigorous, but both the introduction and the notes are accommodated to the needs of students who will be coming to the poem for the first time. This is an edition that will please students and professors alike, and its sheer quality is a tribute to Barbara Lewalski's passion to provide readers with all the help they need to understand the greatest of all English poems."
Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester
Gordon Campbell, University of Leicester
"Teachers and scholars will welcome Barbara Lewalski’s Blackwell edition of Paradise Lost, one not only informed by the erudition of a prominent and highly respected Miltonist but advantaged by her sound decision to reproduce the original language, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and italics of the 1674 text."
Edward Jones, Editor, Milton Quarterly
"For the student or general reader, looking for an old-spelling edition that is faithful to the original punctuation, this edition has much to recommend it. Its annotation is crisp, purposeful and well-judged."
Thomas N. Corns, University of Wales, Bangor
"A superb teaching text. Lewalski’s edition respects Milton’s original poem and offers supremely clear introductions, bibliography and special material to guide the student reader and educated lay person alike to new discoveries in a work that, quite simply, has it all: good, evil, God, Satan, humans, angels, love, despair, war, politics, sex, duty, and sublime poetry—set in a cosmic landscape that inspires wonder and seduces new readers in every generation." Sharon Achinstein, Oxford University
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In this authoritative edition of John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost is presented in the original language of its 1674 publication, with explanatory annotations and word glosses.
- Edited by one of the world's leading Milton scholars, the author of the acclaimed The Life of Milton (Blackwell 2000), which won the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford Book Award
- Offers readers the opportunity to experience the brilliance and beauty of Paradise Lost as it was experienced by his contemporaries
- Presents Paradise Lost in its original 1674 form
- Incorporates accidentals (spelling and punctuation) from the 1674 edition
- Recovers Miltonic rhythms, pronunciations, and sound qualities often lost in modern editions
- Annotates names, places, biblical and literary allusions, and unfamiliar words
- Includes illustrations by John Baptista Medina from the 1688 Folio edition
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Milton Transcendant!, Nov 20 2011
By Alberich - Published on Amazon.com
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This is one of my favorite texts for diving into and reveling in Milton. The editor, Barbara K. Lewalski, has chosen the Spelling and Capitaliztion that i prefer, wherein the nouns are capitalized and italized. If one does not enjoy stretching one's mind to grasp the Miltonic sentence and meter, then avoid investing in this marvelous edition. Just look out for a Bantam or Signet mass market paperback to satisfy one's curiosity or school requirement. But for those would consider the investing in the Riverside or the Modern Library editions, etc. then also consider this labor of Lewalski to bring Milton to the us.
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Incredible!, Dec 21 2011
By brogers1990 "Brett Rogers" - Published on Amazon.com
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I ordered this book for a seminar on John Milton. While I expected it to be dense and hard to understand, I was pleasantly surprised with how the notes are alongside the text, as opposed to in the back, and how the format of the text lends some more understanding to the reader, such as when dialogue vs. monologue is taking place, or when the narrator is speaking. It's a great buy for anyone wanting a deeper look at John Milton's Paradise Lost.
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